'Diabolus' is directed by Leonardo Bertolucci and stars Steve McQueen and David Niven as partners who decide to rob a casino in Paris using a sampler, a rimshot and a life-size cut-out of Shirley Bassey as a decoy. The music is composed by the boy with the baddest name in showbiznizz, J Swinscoe, and his motley crue of warbling drunken masters, the Cinematic Orchestra. A fine slice of jazz more at home
on the shelves of Alice Coltrane than the shelves of your bare cupboards. C'est la boom, baby...

Taking up le baton from Fred Galliano, Swinscoe explores the fertile pastures of modern jazz, covered thickly avec un brand new genetically modified nineties fertiliser code-named Akai S3000. Bits of Midi equipment are joined by drunken, Paris-infatuated musicians, and together they write poems about James Bond films, the Renaissance, and other events they can vaguely recall being part of. It's all swirling violins and Shirley style, conjuring images of sequin dresses and tall cocktails carried on silver trays by camp waiters who only speak French (of course) Double basses played by over-sized tomcats in tuxedos, and saxophones played by...well, by drunk saxophone players if the truth be told.
(The writer would like to apologise for all libelious slanders made against saoxphone players in this piece. Then quid to anyone who can locate a sober Tom Chant, and don't give your reward to him because he'll just spend it on beer).